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Caption: Tom Kobayashi, Landscape, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, Credit: Ansel Adams
Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with author Shizue Seigel about her book In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internm...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
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Everyday, it seems war is in the news. Headlines report on wars from around the globe. But what happens when a war ends? Today, the group called...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
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A discussion of the evolution of film over the last hundred years, both as a vehicle for imaginative storytelling and a genre for commentary, the p...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 24:16
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A discussion of the evolution of film over the last hundred years, both as a vehicle for imaginative storytelling and a genre for commentary, the p...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 23:17
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You're listening to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Sayon Soeun, once a child soldier kidnapped by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government which killed over two million people, returns to his homeland to s...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Jamie Ford talks about and reads from his second novel, Songs of Willow Frost. He also talks about west coast Chinese culture in the early 20th cen...

Bought by WCWP, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This Chinese-American novelist, perhaps best known for her book, "Joy Luck Club," takes readers to Shanghai and its International Settlement where ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with Suzy Menkes, @INYTLuxury 2013, the woman who has long unearthed every new fashion trend for The International Herald Tribune (now...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 13:33
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Writer/director Erik Matti talks by phone about politics, tracking shots, and why the hitmen in ON THE JOB are unique.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2013
  • Length: 16:13
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Woodford's Dream Job Turned Into a Nightmare
When Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of that corporation, he became the first Westerner ever to climb the ranks of one of the country's...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 36:04
Caption: Shengqiao Chen (L) and Zehao Zhou (R)
Shengqiao Chen (L) tells his friend Zehao Zhou (R) about being smuggled to the U.S. aboard the Golden Venture in 1993.

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 3
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A UK author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial Peking, a...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious visits with filmmaker Kristine Samuelson, co-creator of the documentary, “Tokyo Waka: A City Poem” about the 20,000 crows that inhabi...

  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Debbie Lum, San Francisco, CA 3/11/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Debbie Lum talks facing her fears, keeping the conversation going, and why she ended up as a character in her own documentary.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:25
Caption: Mira Nair, Mill Valley, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mira Nair talks multiple identities, defining fundamentalism, and creating dialogue.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 13:14
Caption: Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems. Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Richard Wong, San Francisco, CA 3/10/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Richard Wong talks Hollywood vanilla, the aesthetics of falling wine, and the first time he saw Asian people on the big screen.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 16:49
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Ted Maloney, Director of Global Initiatives at Skagit Valley College talks with Dave about two recent trips to Vietnam; trips that included crawlin...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:12
Caption: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Credit: Amanda Brown
"The fact is my parents lost all of their assets. If I didn't have something (I was) really into, in my case was piano and jazz, I think it would h...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
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Ang Lee talks faith, storytelling, and being pushed to the edge.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 10:18
Caption: Jenova Chen
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Aaron Dignan, the author of The Game Frame, and Jenova Chen of ThatGameCompany.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 48:19
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Surinder Singh (L) and his son Rupinder (R) talk about their lives as Sikhs in the U.S. and Canada.

Bought by KALW, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 3